Ten Sonnets. With Ten Etchings by O. Coubine.
Frankfurt am Main: Querschnitt Verlag (R. Th. Hauser & Co), 1924. Illustrated with 10 original etchings by Othon Coubine. First edition. Lettered copy “E” of the deluxe issue printed on handmade Pannekoek Dutch paper (“De Fortuin”), from the group of 25 deluxe copies in a total edition of 126. Signed by the artist in the colophon. Printed by R. Th. Hauser & Co., Frankfurt am Main, in Rudolf Koch Roman type of the Gebrüder Klingspor type foundry, with decorations designed by Rudolf Koch. Publisher’s vellum covers with gilt illustration vignette on the front panel, gilt spine title, and top edge gilt, in Japanese folded-leaf binding with double leaves, stab-sewn through the covers; the hand binding executed by Ernst Rehbein, Darmstadt. Housed in the original publisher’s hardpaper portfolio case. [26] p. The portfolio somewhat worn; the book itself in fine condition.
A finely produced Flechtheim press artist’s book illustrated with original etchings by Otakar Kubín and designed by Rudolf Koch, signed by the artist and issued in the deluxe edition.
Issued as the 27th and final volume of the Flechtheim-Drucke, the series of artist books published under the direction of Alfred Flechtheim. The book was designed by Rudolf Koch, set in his Koch-Antiqua type and printed in blue and black with decorative initials also drawn by Koch.
The illustrator Otakar Kubín (1883–1969)—who later worked under the French form of his name Othon Coubine—was a Czech painter and printmaker associated with the early twentieth-century avant-garde. After exhibiting in Herwarth Walden’s Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon in 1913, he settled in France following the First World War, where his work moved toward a restrained classicism visible in the present etchings.
The combination of Koch’s typography and Coubine’s refined etchings produced one of the most accomplished German livre d’artiste productions of the interwar period, and the work stands as the concluding publication of the Flechtheim series.
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Price: €8,000.00